JAG - Equality, Assistance and Inclusion

JAG is a national, non-profit association which works with issues related to personal assistance and disabilities. JAG is also a non-profit cooperative of users of personal assistance. Ideologically, JAG belongs to the Independent Living movement.  

The word ”JAG” in Swedish means I. It’s a reminder of that the we, the members of JAG, are subjects, individuals, and not objects of care. ”JAG” is also formed of the first letters of the Swedish words for Equality, Assistance and Inclusion, which are important aims to achieve for us.

Membership in JAG

Only a person with multiple, severe disabilities including some kind of intellectual disability can become a member of JAG. Others can become supporting members, without power or influence in the association. Only fully members of the association JAG can be member of its Board of Directors. Among JAG’s members are persons with congenital intellectual disabilities, as well as persons who have had a head injury caused by an accident or by illness later in life. With few exceptions, we also have extensive physical disabilities. Most of JAG’s members have no speech, but express themselves in their own very personal way. The nature of the members’ disabilities presents a challenge to achieve user-control of personal assistance. JAG has undertaken the difficult, but not at all impossible, task to provide user-controlled personal assistance to the members.

For more information, please contact Kerstin Sellin, phone +46-8-7893017.